The Stoker (1935 film)
The Stoker is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce and starring Leslie Fuller, Georgie Harris and Phyllis Clare.
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The Stoker
"The Stoker" (original German: "Der Heizer") is a short story by Franz Kafka. Kafka wrote it as the first chapter of a novel he called Amerika; but he abandoned the novel in 1913 and published the one completed chapter alone as a pamphlet later that year. Since his death, it has usually been published along with the uncompleted fragments of Amerika.
Plot
The story begins with 16-year-old Karl Rossmann arriving at New York harbor on a slow-moving ship. Rossman has been sent to America "because a servant girl had seduced him and got herself with child by him." As he is about to come ashore, he remembers that he has left his umbrella below deck. He asks a young man with whom he had been briefly acquainted during his voyage to watch over his trunk as he runs to get his umbrella.
The boy gets lost in the corridors and begins pounding on a door. A man lets him in and the two start having a conversation. The man explains that he is a stoker, that he works on the ship, and that he is about to be fired because his boss (a Romanian named Schubal) has a preference toward Romanians (the ship and the stoker are both German). He goes on to explain that he has worked on many ships and has always been praised for his hard work.
The Stoker (1932 film)
The Stoker is a 1932 American film directed by Chester M. Franklin.
Plot summary
A man whose wife has deserted him winds up saving a beautiful girl from the clutches of a murderous bandit on a Nicaraguan coffee plantation.
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